Question about childhood trauma??????

Question

If a child is physically abused, mentally abused, verbally abused, molested, experienced constant let-downs by parents in the most dramatic way possible...how will this child react to this? And yes, everything i mentioned that has happened to a child.

Along with about thousand sick, twisted other things i didn't mention

Answer 1

If you are/were that child then I am so sorry you had to go through that.

I can say I was abused when I was a child. the place I found the most comfort and a way to handle life as an adult, and feel like I was a real human, not a freak. Was by studying the Bible and coming to learn about Jehovah God.

He taught me, that He loves me despite what my mom felt. And despite the sins and mistakes I have made. He taught me that being molested was NOT my fault, but the fault of a bunch of selfish, uncaring, unloving, greedy jerks.

He taught me how to over come most of the pain and fears.

This may work for you, along with counseling, try studying the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses. You do not have to become one, just study the Bible for six months.

Pray specifically, that Jehovah can help you overcome the layers of abuse, and you can be what you were meant to be. Not what some abusers tried to make you to be.

Answer 2

A child can react to this in many ways, it depends on whether or not the people taking care of the child now decide to get them in counceling and keep them there to address the issues.
I am adopted. I was in 2 foster homes and a group home before I finally got to my parents when I was 5. They were in for a treat. They did keep me in counceling. I think I have done as well as could have been expected I guess. My biological mother was a prostitute, so my sister and I had to endure things that you would only read in books or hear on the montel williams show. I was more of a mother to my sister at 3 years old then our actual mother was. Then I get to a place where I am supposed to be part of a family and protected right. Wrong. My brother sexually abused and tried to rape me on several occasions from age 8 to 10. When I finally told someone and the police were called, my mother treated my brother like he was the victim. They protected him leaving noone to protect me. then my dad started to sexually abuse me from 14 to 16. Again when I finally told my mother I was accused of fanasizing about my father and lying. I ran away. Even through all of this I have had a child and done a damn good job raising him. I went to college. I dont have my degree yet, but I will in the future I can gaurantee that. There are going to be repercussions to this child. All thetrauma this child has experienced will affect him/her for the rest of their life. Its how they learn to deal with it thats key. I will always suffer from the nightmares. The depression and now I find out that I have had ADHD my whole life. Its better than what would have happened to me if I had stayed with my real mother. I could have ended up selling my body for crack just like she did, but I didnt. I can relate.

Answer 3

A child could react many different ways. He may become violent, abusive, angry, depressed. It will all depend on the child and their emotional level dealing with all this. If you haven't already you need to do what you can to get this child out of that environment. Call the police or social services. No one deserves to have to live in an environment like that and the sooner he is taken out of that environment the sooner he can start the recovery process and hopefully learn to trust others again. If he is kept in that environment it will only cause him more physical and emotional pain that will become harder and harder for him to get over once he is finally out of the environment. I hope this helped and please make sure that child gets helped.

Answer 4

Children react in many different ways to traumas, depending on their genetic predispositions & their emotional resources in their lives (nature + nurture).

Some children have one, single trauma & are scarred for life by it. Others have many traumas & seem to brush them off pretty well as being "in the past."

The best form of psychotherapy for someone with trauma is EMDR. It can offer very efficient help, in from 1-10 sessions, without the person needing to re-live the pain of the trauma!! A close second is clinical hypnotherapy by a qualified hypnotherapist, with experience with trauma patients.

Children are very lucky...they require MUCH LESS therapy than adults do, to get over traumatic experiences, IF the trauma is not continuing in their lives (as in, ongoing incest).

Some children dissociate, so the trauma is "tucked away" in their minds, still there, but forgotten. It then causes problems much later, in adulthood. That's what happens to some children who seemed to react "fine" to the trauma when it happened.

Best wishes!

Answer 5

Reaction to that... way to many different ways to list. The one thing that is most definitely clear, anyone who has grown up in that environment needs professional counselling. There is no way someone could come out of that with a healthy sense of self and others. Trust issues, authority issues, anger issues, etc.... I'd hope the person realized that counselling is very much a sign of desire to reclaim life, and not a sign of weakness or fear.

Answer 6

Its difficult to say, everyone responds to things in different ways, it just depends on how people's brains work. Clearly this person has gone through a great deal of trauma so it will come out in some way or another, and will most definitley affect relationships they have in life, like friendships and the likewise. But again, it varies from person to person, depending on the age that these incidents happened, whether they are male or female, many things. I would suggest, if you know this person, to have them seek out some form of therapy to work through these traumas, they could possibly have a form of Post Trauamatic Stress Disorder, depending on how severe the events were. Bottom line: a lot of people go through severe traumas, but therapy can help people who feel hopeless get through it. Hope that this info helps you out

Answer 7

They come back with counseling and they have medication to reduce depression and help healing.If the child has been removed from the abusers, and praying for the person does wonders.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

ive been that kid
i kinda still am
its not very good
but
it all depends on tha kid
everything has just made me stronger
but also colder in tha procces so i try not to be cold hearted alot
Ussaly a kid would go suicide long before the worst
but i havent lol and never will =]
cuz im good now
...
oh and one reaction
was it made me really shy
as a lil kid
and insociable
but it later went away

Answer 10

well they get depressed n not want to be around people or people of the same sex dat abused dem. i was abused wen i was younger n now am afraid of men. I dont want to be afraid but I am. I also get depressed n lonely sometimes. Everyone reacts different to these things. I do have a boyfriend now but im still kinda afraid of men